Taking to the streets, 30 student activists paraded through the party-minded tailgaters at the University of South Carolina vs University of Alabama Birmingham football game, preaching the gospel of the potential for real sustainable green jobs to lift the econcomy while solving the imposing climate crisis.

Over 725 youth signed the PowerVote pledge in just under three hours, sending a message to elected officials that South Carolinians are ready for a Green Economy to lift all boats, pull our nation out of its fossil fuel addictions, and declare an end to coal and nuclear development in the south.

SCASCC: a youth powershift, attendees also planned for the future of the network, highlighting student and community struggles to stop new coal and nuclear proposals. Re-invigorated and invested in the struggle to end environmental racism, economic injustice, and protect a healthy future; students decided to take on the challenge of shutting down new dirty energy developments, and of creating a state moratorium on both coal and nuclear power development within 5 years.